BND - Jeffrey Archer, British novelist and politician, dies at 86

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Jeffrey Archer, British novelist and politician, dies at 86

Oct 6, 2 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
42 sof TV captions
15people retold it online

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Oct 6, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 6, 2 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 15 people
Oct 6, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 2 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (2 wordings): “Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86” → “Jeffrey Archer: Successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Jeffrey Archer, bestselling UK novelist and scandal-plagued politician, dies aged 86” → “Jeffrey Archer, UK novelist and scandal-plagued politician, dies on eve of final book”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating